[Source: deepatheawesome] [Published on VCCircle] Having recently moved to a new area of New Delhi, I am familiarizing myself with everything around me and trying to get the general vibe of what's going on around my local area. User-generated content has been quite useful in this regard. I'...

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[Source: deepatheawesome] [Published on VCCircle] Having recently moved to a new area of New Delhi, I am familiarizing myself with everything around me and trying to get the general vibe of what's going on around my local area. User-generated content has been quite useful in this regard. I'...

Good post and fabulous post on medianama.
However, I would'nt bet on 4G services (seems like a bet on 3G). The truth of the matter is the simple services where the loop can be closed dont require serious bandwidth. You nailed the infrastructure issue on your post on medianama.
Agreed, the future does look bright. The real question is how does one survive this winter before the upcoming spring and summer. Raising Capital around mobile ventures is rather painful at this point. Good to see ex-entrepreneurs going to the other side. The Indian ecosystem definitely needs more of ex-entrepreneurs, otherwise we will have to keep explaining the comparison of angry birds to the mba dudes.

I find myself simultaneously excited by the future prospects of India's mobile value-added services (MVAS) industry and depressed by the current friction in the eco-system. Overall though, I am cautiously optimistic - there is some hope on the horizon in the form of upcoming offdeck rev-share c...

Big fan of how you have been able to morph yourself successfully through 2009! Kudos to you and your team.
But most importantly a thousand twitter's will be blooming soon on statusnet & OMB. Which would mean that connecting to them would be important. Can you imagine a blogging client just for wordpress or type now? Pls add support for statusnet & OMB.
Thx!

Seesmic has changed quite a bit in 2009. We shipped 5 Twitter apps which got more than 3.5 million downloads on Android, Blackberry, Windows, Web and OSX via Air. Hundreds of thousands of users enjoy our apps daily and more than 60,000 joined TeamSeesmic and provided us with constant feedback. ...